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- Of the 1,200 pupils at school in Suzhou’s hi-tech innovation district, 194 have highly educated mums and dads
- Fathers who are academics and scientists regularly give talks to the students on topics including nanomaterials, computer viruses and network security
A primary school in eastern China is generating interest online because of the high number of its pupils’ parents – 194 mums and dads – with PhDs, observes Laurie Chen, Reporter at South China Morning Post.
The highly educated parents of children
at Hanlin Primary School in Suzhou, Jiangsu were first featured on the
local government’s official WeChat page, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Monday.
Suzhou government said on the social network
that 133 fathers and 61 mothers held PhDs – or nearly a sixth of the
parents of the school’s 1,200 pupils...
Suzhou is home to a research campus of the
prestigious University of Science and Technology of China, as well as
the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, which is part of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Colleges located in the school’s district
include Suzhou University, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and
campuses of Renmin University and Southeast University.
